https://www.nairaland.com/2322621/shina-rambo-notorious-armed-robberWhile reading through the thread above, I could see some people were curious if and if the Notorious Shina Rambo has been prosecuted or not. Which prompt me to Google search his name. Here is his true life story and for the records he has served his jail term [b]Shina Rambo (born c. 1963) is a former bandit
who terrorised South-West Nigeria in the
1990s. After serving jail-time for his crimes,
he was converted by an evangelist and
became a Christian evangelical pastor .Shina
Rambo now Mathew Oluwanifemi was a name
that sent shivers down the spine of people
who lived in the South West of Nigeria and
even outside Nigeria, like Benin Republic and
neighborhood, in the 1990s.
He was a hardened criminal, a terror and
killer, one whom men of the security agencies
will never forget in a haste.
A man mountain, towering about 6 ft 5inch,
well built, dark skinned and sweltering eyes,
he carried out his operations, like a movie, in
the broad day light, with sophisticated
weapons, and bullet belts and explosives
strapped roundabout him.
He specialized in robbing exotic cars on
highways and banks. Nothing could stop him,
not even security operatives, he was totally
invincible. He was Shina Rambo!He was born
in the year 1958 to a military man who was a
bad egg in the service. His father was from
Abeokuta in Ogun state, but his mother was a
native of Sabongida–Ora in Edo state.
His father had over 18 wives, as was the
norm for soldiers to impregnate virtually every
woman they met where they were posted
to. His father used his military influence to rob
innocent citizens, and always brought huge
amount of money home.
This used to entice little Shina. He recalls, “I
remembered when I was about 7 years old, my
father came home with a lot of money,
foreign currencies, with blood on it, and they
were using something like a woman’s scarf to
wipe it, then I asked him, is this an animal’s
blood, or human blood? But he wouldn’t
answer me, they were just drinking, smoking,
and merry making.
”Shina was already indoctrinated into the
underworld by his father at a tender age of 7
without him knowing it, as he would sit in
front of his son, to dismantle and assemble all
sorts of weapons and then polishing them in
preparation for an operation. This went on for
so long till one day, little Shina, entered into
his father’s room while he had stepped into
the toilet, and saw a dismembered gun on the
floor.
He sat down in front of it, and bit by bit, he
had assembled it effortlessly in no time at all.
His father came out of the toilet, and saw his
son, with a loaded gun in his hands. Shina
flashed back and said, “That day my father
was so disappointed, that he wanted to kill
me, he grabbed the gun from my hand and
shot straight at me, but I miraculously
escaped out of the room. Then he waited for
me to be less alert at night he came to my
room with a machete and tried to behead me,
but once again, I escaped, but the machete
caught my left leg. (rolled up his trouser to
show us the large scar, that made everyone
sighed in pity).
It cut me so deep I thought I was never going
to walk again. That day I knew I had
graduated, all that was left was to pull the
trigger, and I was so eager. Shina Rambo
became so notorious in no time, and was hell
bent on succeeding in his career as an armed
robber, that he went through any length to
secure spiritual powers for fortification.
To the extent of pounding over 27 live new
born babies in the mortar with a pestle,
cutting off about 100 human tongues and
cooking them to eat, visiting the spiritual river
called river of life in Ogoja, Cross Rivers State,
living in an Iroko tree for days, and sleéping in
the cemetery.
He was given a spiritual wife who always
followed him for any operation, she dressed
like an Alhaja, people thought she was human,
but she was a spirit, that was why they never
saw her face.
He said she was his personal driver, that she
could drive from Nigeria to Cotonou, in the
speed of light.
Hear him. ”I was involved in so many rituals,
that I can’t start naming them now, I was so
powerful, I went underground, inside trees that
looked like a city, a lot of beautiful houses
inside the tree, I had my own too, I went into
a river called River of life in Ogoja, where a lot
of politicians and wealthy men used to come,
I had several personalities, I could change my
form whenever I wanted to, that’s why the
police were busy killing innocent people, and
thought they were killing Shina Rambo.
The 9 herbalists that gave me that power, I
became stronger than them, one day I went to
their shrines, and killed all of them, so that
they don’t reveal my secrets. I had too many
powers; my spiritual wife could drive any car
in this world or out of it, no police vehicle, or
anyone for that matter, could ever chase and
catch me during an operation.
She was out of this world, and when she had
completed her operation, they took her away
from me. I could give anything to get powers,
and the elders knew, so they also gave me
anything I wanted.
I once beheaded hundred
men, and gave them the heads fresh, they
were so happy with me that they made me
invincible.
No matter the kind of bullet you shot at me, it
was just like pure water on my body. I could
give anything to get power, but of all the
things I did to get power, the one that still
breaks my heart the most, is sléeping with my
mother. My father is dead now, but my mother
is still alive, and she lives with me she is 85
years old, whenever I set my eyes on her, I
just start crying.
I can`t bear it. Shina Rambo was a raging
terror, he was infallibly dangerous, the police
dreaded him, both in Nigeria, and Benin
Republic, his place of interest for business.
He would go to police stations, in broad
daylight and kill every policeman there, drive
to check points and open fire on every
policeman on duty, he didn’t like the police at
all, and was never afraid of them, he operated
in broad day light armed to the teeth looking
like Johny Rambo, in the popular Sylvester
Stalone movie, “First Blood”.
He once robbed 40 exotic cars in one day and
drove all of them in a convoy, from Lagos to
Cotonou, unstopped. He was powerful; he was
wealthy, and impenetrable. He was a tin god,
apparently belched from the very arroyo hell,
we all dreaded him. He had a wife and three
children, but he lost all of them in one day
during a bloody police raid whilst he was away
on operation.
His wife was his stabilizing factor his life
changed afterwards. He says “my wife was
everything to me,
I was forbidden by the elders to sléep with
any other woman apart from her, I could
gather about 50 women around me in a hotel,
and they will just be playing with me, we
would smoke, drink, and sniff cocaine, I will
give them money but I will never sleép with
them. I will go back home to my wife and
sleép with her. That was why the police never
caught me. She knew my job, she knew what I
was, I never left them alone at night, I
operated in the day time and go back home to
my family at night.
I had everything, I was very wealthy, I once
spent 50 million naira in a day. I did it a lot,
there was one day that we were coming from
an operation and it seemed as if my powers
were going to fail me, the police and the army
were almost closing in on us, so we had to
drive into a crowd and threw millions of naira
in the air, there was commotion, everybody
was busy picking naira notes even the police,
until we escaped.
I was too rich, but anything the devil gives
you never lasts, he will collect more from you,
it’s only the devil that will give you Fila, (cap)
and ask for Iro and Buba.(wrapper and top). I
lost everything, all the money, my family; I
was so powerful the police couldn’t catch me
but I lost it all.I had to surrender myself to
the police, and I was arrested and jailed for 11
years.
When I was serving my jail term in Agodi
prisons, Ibadan, Prophet T.O Obadare came
visiting, and having been encouraged several
times by the Christian brothers and sisters in
the prison to give my life to Christ, he prayed
for me and converted me, and changed my
name to Oluwanifemi, and it was so
miraculous, the next day I woke up and
started speaking in tongues. It was during the
time of President Olusegun Obasanjo, that we
were granted freedom.[/b] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shina_RamboCc: Afam4eva, OAM4J, lalasticlala 1 Share 
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